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AGENCY: FBI
RECORD NUMBER : 124-10284-10171
RECORD SERIES: HQ
AGENCY FILENUMBER: CR 105-83720-1
Document Information
ORIGINATOR: FBI
FROM: BARRON, JOHN R.
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI
TITLE:
DATE: = 12/31/1959
PAGES: 18
SUBJECTS :
EPE, INTV, ARVIER, MARIA JOSEFA MENDIZABAL, AKA,
EMP, RES, ASSOC, POLIT, INTEL ACT
DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
CLASSIFICATION: — Secret
RESTRICTIONS: Consulted; 1B; 4
CURRENT STATUS: — Redact
DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 06/03/1998
OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF INS, CIA
COMMENTS :. REFERRED TO INS

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MARIA JOSEFA MENDIZABAL ARVIER,
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INTERNAL sEcURITY ~ CUBA .
REGISTRATION ACT ~ CUB A,

Miami letter to Director, November 4%, 1959, 4. Sin fof,
Miawi report of SA JOHN R, BARRON, November 23, 1959, :
captioned:  UNSUES; MARCOS PEREZ JIMENEZ - VICTIM, ~ |
KIDNAPPING ~ CONSPIRACY (putile 7 79452) »

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REQUEST OF BUREAU MIL. Bugle $21 F296

The Bureau is requested to refer instant
matter te the Department for decision regarding the
Subject 's activities while employed as a seerebary to

ex-Venezuelan presicent MARCOS PEREZ JIMENEZ and
regarding her admission that /she furnished information
to ALBERTO BAYO, JR., described in instant report,
concerning information obtained during hex employment...
There exists a possible vieJation of the Registration
Act, over which this Bureau/ has. juciadiction.

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Will report the decision rendered by the
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information copies have been furnished the
New York Office, ineemuch as the subject ef this
investigation was formerly employed as a secretary
te ex-Venezuelan president MARCOS PEREZ JIMENEZ, whom
the New York Office is currently investigating.

his investigation is being placed in a

"pending inactive status, pending departriental decision

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concerning the subject's activities while she was
Manco? as @ Se setary to ex-Venezuelan president —

The Bureau ‘is advised thet investigation |
appearing in this report conducted prier to October 9,
1959, was made concerning the subject inassineh as she
was suspected of plotting against MARCOS PEREZ JIMENEZ
to arrange his abduction, the details of which have
been reported in reference Miami report dated November 235
1959 (Bufile 7-9452).

MM T-2, wollized in the details of tis

- report was interviewed by Special Agents JOHN R,

BARRON and WILLIAM B, HOLLOMAN, fat which tine she
‘Sdentified herself as]a CTA informant in Havana ©

a stated that she was employed as @ seoretary “ae

TO BAYO, JR.

fhe Bureau is advised that ell informants
familiar with Latin Anierican activities were contacted,
and no inforsiaticn was received indicating that the
subject was active in Cuban intelligence activities.

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The interviews appearing in this report with
MARCOS PEREZ JIMENEZ, Dr. CARLOS SISO, and the subject, . ,
appear on SF 648 and FD 302s in original form in ==
Miami case file 7-475, captioned: "pysup 33 MARCOS PEREZ
JIMENEZ - VICTIM; KIDNAPPING - CONSPIRACY (Bufile 7-9452).
IDENTITY - LOCATION OF ORIGINAL
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information contained :
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MM T-3 is JANET SUMMERS, |
District Manager's Clerk,
Southern Bell Telephone |
and Telegraph Company, -
Miami Beach, Florida
(nature of information) ; instant report, page 12.
| : Careful consideration has been given to each
_ Source concealed in this report, and they were con-—
cealed only in those instances where identities must. .
be concealed. Se
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Report of SA JOHN R, BARRE ~ DECLASSIFICATION AN a pos |
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Synopsis: “subject, . MARIA JOSEPA MENDIZABAL ARV:
1916-4n Cuba; Initiigration and, Jaturalization service ‘Alien
Registration No, A+11039008. [while émployed” Miami :
Beach, Plorida as ‘secretary to. MARCOS” PEREZ J
Venezuelan president, reported by bial P-1 ‘to be in
furnishing infornat: on be see Oo BAYO, 2 Re regarding the

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This dnvestigation “is pred! 6 on. qnfornatt ae
furnished by MMi T-1, a United ‘States: ‘government. agency ~..
which conducts 4antelligence : ‘investigations, “whieh” advised
on October 9, 1959 that tne subject, "Nene" E Lig hole
was in contact with Al © BAYO, JR., déseribed by 7 -

| MM T-1 as being engaged. ‘in intel igence aceeyiey. for ‘the y —

Cuban government )(u)

SUBSECR Ys 8. GRATION . _AND BK LTZATION stays ae

on October 9 and 30, 1959, ‘the files of the 2 |

District office, ‘Immigration. and Naturalization Service a
_ (INS), New York City, were” caused to bé reviewed ‘by SA. 2
i “4 WILLIAM D, MEEHAN and. reflected that, on November 2, | 1956;, ; a
7 oné MARIA MENDIZABAL, 411-039-008, date of birth — or

November 26, 1916, “in Havana, Cuba, filed. aD “application
for Inmigration Visa and Alien: Registration" at the ,

This document contains neither recommétidations ner conclusions.of the FBI. It is. the property of the FBI and is loaned. to. .
“your agency; it and its contents are not to bé, aie BCRED” your agency. . fi

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‘In this. applisatio MAR \ NDIZABAL Fusni shed
her place of . Be ua as: Cle <a

p as ex FBO nanies. ‘Her’
oceupation was fur hat, of offiees clerk,
her last: permanent: add. es as Avenue rg ‘Wuniber wean
e/84, Marianao, Havana, ¢ Her destination and -
address in the United) States were furnished care oF the
Latina Shipping Company, Lisiteds 111, Wall Street,

New York City, but this was crossed through in ink,

and the address: 321 Rast 43rd Street, New York 17,

New York, was marked in; She possessed Cuban Passport.
Number 21566, issued Septenber | 205.1955, by the Cuban

Ministry of State at Ravana, obas walid une September 20,

1957. ‘She was” described: as. Lowe

Race BE “yntke fouban)

See Betiale

Height oe & Lees 5 Inches

Weight = oi a. pounds:
Hair a fh Bam

Eyes monn

Complexion

Marital - OB ca
Minor children

‘She ‘claimed ‘further in. shia. ‘application’ that
she had previously applied for and was granted visas to
enter the: United: States” Curing. 1952 and 1956, but the
dates of her previous | Sojourn to" the. “United! States .
were not furnished.” ; LS

ABAL . ‘submit uted 40 support or

IZAPA
this application’ a. copy. of her Certificate of Birth, .

Petition for Divorce, and a document attesting that
she had no. arrest record” in Guba, ail. of which were

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an the Spanish language.

Her file alse contained an affidavit submitted 1
by one EDUARDO BAX GONZALEZ, 45 Fifth Avenue, New York
wy City, an American citizen, who was bor yana, Cuba,
Te wa was set out that GONZALEZ was the Président and Sole ; '
owner of the Latina Shipping Company, 111 Wall Street, |
New York City, and was desirous of bringing MENDIZABAL

to the United States to work for the above eompany.

The degree of relationship existing between GONZALEZ .
and MENDIZABAL was not set forth.

MARTA MENDIZABAL was granted an 0-1 Visa, .
Number 5686, and arrived “in the United States at Miami,
Florida, on February 20, 1957, ‘This was the only arrival ae
or departure contained in the INS, New York records,

A search of the Alien Address Report Cards F
maintained at INS, New York, failed to reflect any - So, |
record of MENDIZABAL for the years of 1958, and 1959.

RESULTS OF SDNVESTIGATION

MM T-1, on October 9, 1959, advised that an
MARIA MENDIZABAL, also known as "Nene" MENDIZABAL, v |

emplo as # Secretary of oy pene gue). an prssident..
attenipted to contact ALBERTO REVUEL REVUELTA tn ‘Havana, at

Havana telephone: 29-
advised that ALBERT

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FREVUELTA is identical with ALBERTO a

Tart yae. who, according to MM T-1, is engaged in eeninson
ntelligence activities for the Cuban government. MM T-1

believed that the subject was a plant and was furnish-

ing information to BAYO, JR. regarding the activities |

of PEREZ FIMENEZ »(¥() RW :
Prior to ‘eipt of ‘the above information a
as furnished by Mi T-1 on October Qs 19595 the following
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MM T-2, [on Octover 24, 1959] @avisen that,
ALBERTO BAYO, JRos Glirector of Aly Pumication, Mariana,
Havana, Cuba, revealed fin early sucust, 195g] taat “Nene"(S)
MENDIZABAL, subsequentiy identified as MARCA JOSEFA ~
MENDIZABAL ARVIER, was sent on a Gelicste mission to
Miami, and that in fifteen days, there wowlkd tbe an’
announcesient In the press about PEREZ JIMENEZ, MM P-2
advised that he observed the subject Gin the office of
ALBERTO BAYO, JR. on three oecas Lone] (S)

The following information was obtained in
connection with lavestigation concerning another matters

On October 29, 1959, MARTA JOSEFA MENDIZABAL
ARVIER wes Interviewed at Miawi, Florida, ‘by Special ~
Agents CHARLES W. EDM STON end JOHN R. “BARRON.

, MARTA JOSEPA MENDIZABAL ARVIER, 1951 Park
Avenue, Apartment 11, Miami. Beach, Plorida, after being
advised of her right to be represented by counsel, that
anything she might say could be aged againgt her in a
court of law, stated thet she was born on November 26,
1916, at Havana, Cia. - so

MENDIZABAL stated that she arrived in the -
United States on August 15, 1959, aboard Cubana Airlines,
which departed Havana, Cuba, at approximately $330 p.m. _
on August 15, 1959. She stated that won her arrival
at the Miami International Airport, she was met by Dr.
CARLOS SISO and INES DAVILA, as well as a friend of Br.

SISO, introduced to her as CARLOS Ac Lit

| MENDEZABAL advised that prior to her arrival
in Miami, shé had received a letter fron INES DAVILA

in the early part ef August; 1959, wherein DAVILA
advised her that PEREZ JIMENEZ, ex-Venesuclan
President, was seeking the servises of a reliable and
competent seeretary. She stated DAVILA in her. letter
to her asked if she wotld be interéstad in this pesition
to which she subsequently replied that she would accept —
the position as secretary to PEREZ JIMENEZ, aS she was
heavily in debt in Guba, 99 7° ae

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